Vaughan Prain – författare

This book offers novel approaches, theoretical insights and results on the development of students’ and teachers’ interest in science as situated learning. It argues for the importance of the affective and emotional dimensions of teaching and learning in STEM classrooms in parallel to the cognitive dimensions.

Contributions to this book examine aesthetics, aesthetic judgement, and aesthetic experience in science education from the perspectives of researchers and practitioners and make a case for integrating aesthetics and affective experiences in science education teaching and learning research and practice. They explore how an aesthetics of science can empirically be observed to take shape through classroom interactions and how such interactions influence learning and how science is valued in aesthetic terms in relation to other practices. The research studies featured in this book span from preschool to undergraduate students, and also include a theoretical contribution reviewing and synthesising the methodological contributions to this volume. They draw on recent theoretical, methodological and empirical advances on the role of aesthetic experience for learning science. These new developments are used to investigate how a disciplinary aesthetics of science can be developed and can meet that of other subjects, and how these various aesthetic practices may be generatively dovetailed for the benefit of learning science and developing an interest in science. This book''s contribution extends beyond the fields of science education research. Its insights can assist policymakers, instructional designers, and teacher educators in considering emotional aspects of learning and values more generally when implementing strategies to foster meaning-making alongside sense-making. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Science Education.

This book offers novel approaches, theoretical insights and results on the development of students’ and teachers’ interest in science as situated learning. It argues for the importance of the affective and emotional dimensions of teaching and learning in STEM classrooms in parallel to the cognitive dimensions.

Contributions to this book examine aesthetics, aesthetic judgement, and aesthetic experience in science education from the perspectives of researchers and practitioners and make a case for integrating aesthetics and affective experiences in science education teaching and learning research and practice. They explore how an aesthetics of science can empirically be observed to take shape through classroom interactions and how such interactions influence learning and how science is valued in aesthetic terms in relation to other practices. The research studies featured in this book span from preschool to undergraduate students, and also include a theoretical contribution reviewing and synthesising the methodological contributions to this volume. They draw on recent theoretical, methodological and empirical advances on the role of aesthetic experience for learning science. These new developments are used to investigate how a disciplinary aesthetics of science can be developed and can meet that of other subjects, and how these various aesthetic practices may be generatively dovetailed for the benefit of learning science and developing an interest in science. This book''s contribution extends beyond the fields of science education research. Its insights can assist policymakers, instructional designers, and teacher educators in considering emotional aspects of learning and values more generally when implementing strategies to foster meaning-making alongside sense-making. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Science Education.

This book reviews the current state of theoretical accounts of the what and how of science learning in schools. The book starts out by presenting big-picture perspectives on key issues. In these first chapters, it focuses on the range of resources students need to acquire and refine to become successful learners. It examines meaningful learner purposes and processes for doing science, and structural supports to optimize cognitive engagement and success. Subsequent chapters address how particular purposes, resources and experiences can be conceptualized as the basis to understand current practices. They also show how future learning opportunities should be designed, lived and reviewed to promote student engagement/learning. Specific topics include insights from neuro-imaging, actor-network theory, the role of reasoning in claim-making for learning in science, and development of disciplinary literacies, including writing and multi-modal meaning-making. All together the book offers leads to science educators on theoretical perspectives that have yielded valuable insights into science learning. In addition, it proposes new agendas to guide future practices and research in this subject.

This book provides an international perspective of current work aimed at both clarifying the theoretical foundations for the use of multimodal representations as a part of effective science education pedagogy and the pragmatic application of research findings to actual classroom settings. Intended for a wide ranging audience from science education faculty members and researchers to classroom teachers, school administrators, and curriculum developers, the studies reported in this book can inform best practices in K – 12 classrooms of all science disciplines and provide models of how to improve science literacy for all students.  Specific descriptions of classroom activities aimed at helping infuses the use of multimodal representations in classrooms are combined with discussion of the impact on student learning. Overarching findings from a synthesis of the various studies are presented to help assert appropriate pedagogical and instructional implications as well as to suggest further avenues of research.